Whatever Next
Created | Updated Oct 22, 2008
Here is the next entry in the modestly anticipated series called... Well I never actually came up with a catchy name for it. Anyway, if you need to see the rules or any explanation, see May I Conduct an Experiment?. The series will be ten episodes long, so bear that in mind with plot development and such. The entries referenced in this episode come up as linked entries wherever your skin usually puts them, and the Post Team have included the next five entries to be used to continue this story at the end. The first person to follow up by adding their name will take on responsibility for the next episode.
Please keep up the challenge of...
Whatever Next...
Episode Nine
Dave heard the clunk of central locking. Next thing he knew were the windows going down and up again, and the wiper starting.
He glanced at the dashboard. Several lights were flashing like mad. Dave looked out the window, half expecting to spot an UFO. After all, Mars was part of our Solar System, and he had watched enough sci-fi movies to wonder whether there was life out there. Buckeye seemed totally unimpressed. 'Squarepusher', he said. That's easy. It's a public key in Cryptograpy. It enabled me to decipher emails which weren't meant for me. With that, he turned off the sat-nav which tried to direct them to The Chantry in Berkeley. 'The A road, you say?' he asked Dave. Dave nodded. He felt reminded of a trip he once made when hitchhiking from Bremen to Syke, Lower Saxony, Germany when he was a teenager. The driver had gone at a similar speed, leaving it to Dave to look at the map.
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Meanwhile, at the party, the men prepared to go into the garden and light the George Foreman for the Australian-style BBQ, while the women sat and sipped their wine. Lisa was relieved when her brother came over to her and handed her new acquaintance the barbecue tongs. Phew, she had got rid of him at last.
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In London, professor Garbinstein was on his way to Heathrow to catch a plane to Glasgow. He knew that Craig wouldn't expect him to come there, he had played his role of the scatty professor who hasn't a clue about modern technology very convincing. He had traced Craig via the mobile phone and had decided to take matters in his own hands after the latest news about the lost camera in the gym.
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The next episode will be based on the following five entries, selected by the Post Team with the Infinite Improbability Drive:
- American Teenage Stereotypes.
- Alternative Lettuce Soup.
- The 1945 Battle for Iwo Jima.
- Joining and Leaving a Minority Religion.
- The Campaign to Abolish Slavery Part Four: Victory and the Continuing Struggle.
If you want to write the next—and final— instalment, sign up below.
